[LINK] Reinventing the Australian Government in Sydney

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from GovHack at Macquarie University in Sydney: 
http://www.govhack.org/

There are about 50 people here for the final session of the weekend 
event. Currently we are watching presentations from the Canberra node, 
where there are about another 100 people. They are showing applications 
using interesting combinations of government data in news ways: turning 
weather data into 2D jewellery, combining bus stop data with geographic 
databases to plot the easiest walking route to the bus stop. One of the 
most sophisticated proposals was Peter Chen's "WatChr" political 
analysis tool. Another application of notes was "Walk My Way", to 
encourage people to walk part of their journey before catching the bus.

A summary of the GovHack projects will be presented to GovCamp at 
University of Canberra on Tuesday: http://www.govcampau.org/


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